puree

Thân thiện

She uses a blender to make a smooth fruit puree.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A smooth, thick, creamy food substance made by crushing and sieving cooked or raw soft foods, such as fruits, vegetables, or legumes.
   • A dish or preparation consisting of such a substance.

2. Verb:

   • To make a food into a puree by crushing, sieving, or blending it until it is smooth.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The recipe calls for one cup of tomato puree.
  • For the first stage of weaning, babies often eat fruit and vegetable purees.
• Verb:
  • Puree the soup until it is completely smooth.
  • You need to puree the cooked carrots for the sauce.

Advanced Usage

• "To be pureed" (passive voice): Describes food that has been processed into a puree.
  • The beans should be cooked until soft and then pureed.
• As a culinary texture: Used to describe a specific, very smooth consistency in cooking.
  • The chef plated the scallops on a bed of cauliflower puree.

Variants and Related Words

• Pureed (adjective): Describes food that has been made into a puree.
  • The recipe uses pureed pumpkin.
• Pureeing (gerund/noun): The action or process of making a puree.
  • The pureeing of the ingredients took only a minute.

Synonyms

• Mash (noun/verb): A softer, less smooth crushed food.
• Pulp (noun): A wet, soft mass, often less processed than a puree.
• Blend (verb/noun): To mix thoroughly; a mixture. (Note: A blend may not be as uniformly smooth as a puree.)

Related Phrases

• "To run through a sieve/strainer": A method to achieve a very smooth puree by removing skins, seeds, or fibers.
  • After cooking, run the fruit through a fine sieve to get a seedless puree.
• "To blend until smooth": Common cooking instruction synonymous with the verb 'to puree'.
  • Add the stock and blend until smooth.

Học thuật

Noun

1. food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender

Verb

1. rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender
   • puree the vegetables for the baby

Từ đồng nghĩa

• strain